- We are back, and I'm here with Deon Cole and Cody Rigsby.
Y'all, give it up.
(audience cheers)
So do you two,
do y'all do a lot of hosting for the holidays?
Do y'all host?
Do you host for the holidays?
- Do I host for the holidays?
- [Kelly] Yes.
- [Deon] Uh, no, no.
I sit back and I get some Ramen noodles, and I-
(laughs)
And, yeah, yeah.
- [Kelly] Don't, hey, I'm not-
- [Deon] I'm a comedian so, I'm usually working.
- I'm not above Ramen noodles.
Ramen noodles are awesome.
(laughs)
- Do you host?
- Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday,
so I love having friends over,
cooking, doing the whole gag, yes.
- [Kelly] Oh, so we just need to be his friend
and show up at his place.
- Yeah, come on through, come on.
- Thank you, that's what I like.
- Alright, well, our next guest is here
to help us upgrade our holiday hosting game,
without breaking the bank people.
You know him as the meticulous
and tasteful interior designer from Queer Eye,
please welcome fellow Texan, Bobby Berk y'all.
(audience cheers)
So welcome to the show.
- Thank you for having me, Kelly.
- I'm pretty sure you have a fan in Cody.
- Oh, a massive fan.
- The feeling, the feeling is mutual,
we've DM'd for a long time.
This is he first time we finally met.
- [Kelly] Oh my gosh, really?
- Yeah, I kept getting videos from people
on Peloton-
- [Kelly] I know.
- Who would say, Cody's talking
about you, telling them that they should work
as hard as I do.
And finally, I was like, hey girl,
you need to start paying me if you're-
(laughs)
- Hey, Girl!
So wait, what do you have for us today?
This is beautiful.
- So as you know, we often start eating
with our eyes before our mouths.
So a really important thing around the holidays is
to make a beautiful tablescape.
So I'm going to show you how to put one together
on the cheap.
- Okay.
Okay, what do we do first?
What's first.
- So first thing, obviously, start from the bottom.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- So what I like to do is for tablecloths,
tablecloths can be expensive.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- Needlessly.
I like to go to Goodwill or to any big store
and just get a cheap sheet.
- [Kelly] Okay, okay, we have those sheets.
- We get a nice flat sheet for, sometimes under 10 bucks.
- [Kelly] Okay.
- So you get a teap cheap, a teap cheat,
- [Kelly] A teap sheet.
- A cheap sheet or a cheat sheet
and you just tear it, and then you can
also make napkins out of it as well.
- [Kelly] Oh, you're tearing it and making napkins, oh.
- [Bobby] Yeah, because napkins are expensive as well.
- [Kelly] Okay.
- [Cody] A whole matching set.
- [Bobby] A whole matching set.
And so you just-
- I just love ripping things.
- Rip it.
And the great thing is people are always like, oh,
they're going to be all wonky.
No, they go right along the seam.
- [Kelly] They do, the seam, wow.
- And you've got a perfect little napkin,
right there.
- I love that, okay.
- Something sexy about ripping this.
- [Cody] Oh!
- [Kelly] Hey!
(laughs)
- Do a body roll.
- Okay.
(audience cheers)
- It does, it's kinda another body roll.
And also, mental health-wise.
It feels good.
- It's like popping those little plastic bubbles.
- Yeah, I'm like, I got to rip something.
Okay, what's next, after this?
- [Bobby] So now we've got this.
- [Kelly] This is awesome.
- What I love also is for this not to be too tall.
So your centerpieces, one of the things
that drive me crazy when I go
to people's houses, when they have these huge centerpieces,
and then you can't see anybody when you want to talk.
- [Kelly] Ah.
- [Bobby] So you can do some taller pieces.
- I've done that.
- But make sure they're thin.
So that way people can actually have a conversation.
- [Kelly] I've been that person you don't like.
- [Bobby] Well, It's not that I wouldn't like you,
It's just I wouldn't like the tablescape.
- I do, I like flowers, and I was like,
oh, that's great, you can't see anyone.
- So what I like to do, is I like to go to Goodwill
or any place with cheap vases,
and just get a bunch of different vases.
And as you can see on the bottom,
these were all different.
But what I did to make them look the same,
is I take baking soda, baking powder-
- [Kelly] What?
- And paint.
So half baking soda, one part baking soda, one part paint.
And I mix it together and see how it's all like textured.
- Yeah, and you'd have to pay like mad money
for that, in like at a store, I'd be an idiot to buy.
- [Bobby] Right, this would be at least a,
probably 40, $50 vase, probably a $60 vase.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- But they were not, they were much cheaper.
The next thing often printed plates can be expensive.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- So I like to mix them up because I like
to have a different tablescape every time friends come over.
So these plates, I actually created with a ceramic pen.
- [Kelly] You did the thing?
- [Bobby] Yep, you draw on them,
you put whatever patterns you want.
- That's a lot of trouble for me.
- And then you stick it in the oven.
- [Kelly] Okay, what?
- [Bobby] And it bakes it on.
- [Kelly] Oh!
- And then it becomes, you can eat on it.
And then you have really cool,
you can get these at the Dollar Store for a dollar.
- That's brilliant!
You can get them at the Dollar Store for $5.
- [Bobby] Right?
- No, that's awesome.
I didn't even know that.
And you just bake it, okay.
- Yeah, and then the rest of the stuff,
you know, we're in L.A., so I just got these out
of my yard and these-
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- Well, not out of my yard, but a neighbor's.
(laughs)
- [Kelly] I stole, I am a klepto
and I went to my neighbor's yard.
- Like mine, she wasn't going to use them.
It's Helen Hunt's mom.
She doesn't mind.
(laughs)
- She doesn't mind, Thank you, Jane.
- [Kelly] I love that you called it out!
Wait, so how about this entire scape?
Like how much did all of this cost?
'Cause it looks expensive.
- [Bobby] Under 250 bucks.
- [Kelly] Really, no way.
- [Bobby] Yeah, yeah.
- Oh, my gosh, okay.
Now wait, before we go to break tell us
about your new show you're premiering this week.
- So, my new show is called, Blown Away Christmas.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- So it's a holiday version of the series, Blown Away.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- [Bobby] It is a glassblowing competition.
- [Deon] Love it, love that show.
- [Bobby] Yes.
So this one is all about holiday decor
and holiday foodscapes like this.
It's really, really exciting.
- [Kelly] That's cool.
- We filmed it in Canada earlier this year.
So I can't wait for you to see it.
- [Kelly] Love it, that's awesome!
Thank you so much.
- On Netflix, on Netflix streaming now.
- Everything's on Netflix.
So thank you so much, and everybody be sure
to catch Blown Away Christmas starting next Friday,
November 19th, on Netflix.
(audience cheers)
And if you try any of Bobby's tablescaping hacks
please upload them to Instagram and tag us,
we want to see them.